Age Justice
NYC’s Seniors Get Solid Wins in City’s Budget
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Overall, the budget for the Department for The Aging will grow 13 percent in 2020 from the previous year, reaching $411 million.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: City Must Invest in Bold Housing Solutions Like Community Land Trusts
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‘CLTs won’t be able to achieve their potential without meaningful support from our city government.’
Budget
Call for City to Lawyer-Up Against Landlords Who Shun Tenants With Vouchers
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Advocates want the de Blasio administration to boost the legal staff that goes after landlords who allegedly violate a 2008 law banning discrimination based on the type of legal income used to pay rent.
Agenda 2019
Opinion: Mr. Mayor, it’s Time to Play Fair for Parks
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‘Parks are critical urban infrastructure. Parks don’t just make New York City tolerable – they make it livable. They are the soul of our city. And they are at a breaking point.’
3-k
More than a Salary Dispute Divides the Mayor and his UPK Providers
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The nonprofits that deliver much of the mayor’s signature initiative say the city’s new program structure suffers from multiple flaws—beyond the issue of pay parity.
Age Justice
Video: Seniors Rally at City Hall
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In this year’s budget process, advocates have elevated two asks: one for $20 million in additional senior-center meals funding, and another for $15 million for delivered meals.
Age Justice
We Asked NYC Seniors: What’s Your Message to the Mayor?
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What do New York City’s aging residents think of New York City’s aging services? City Limits asked people at three senior centers.
Age Justice
Can NYC Deliver Age Justice? Read Our Newsletters
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City Limits produced simple guides to the budget process for older New Yorkers, in three languages.
Agenda 2019
Max & Murphy: Corey Johnson on Measles, Amazon, Charter Revision and 2021
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The speaker weighed in on whether Mayor de Blasio’s presidential flirtation is a distraction, what he’s learned so far as Council leader, what he wants to see out of charter revision and what vision he’ll project if he runs in 2021.
Agenda 2019
Video: Breaking Down the 2020 NY State Budget
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Bail reform, congestion pricing, education aid … the 2020 state budget had a lot. Including, according to a quiz City Limits’ editor took on air, hundreds of uses of the word ‘miscellaneous.’